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Jon Kabat-Zinn Quotes

Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: american
Birth: June 5, 1944

Topics

Education Focus Better Attention Pay

I was focused on athletics, outdoors, sports.

Joe Namath

Sports Outdoors Focused Athletics

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.

John le Carre

Fiction Would Authentic Rather Knows

As languages go, English is pretty user friendly. If you look at a tiny language spoken somewhere that most of us have never heard of, chances are it's going to be so complicated that you have a hard time imagining how people can walk around speaking it without having a stroke.

John McWhorter

Time Walk People Language You Look

Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years.

Steve Cropper

Map Lucky Years Everything Position

I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort so I could remain in a fantasy world.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

Politics World Acting Fantasy Avoid

I am addicted to sport. Without sport, I feel bad.

Mikhail Prokhorov

I Am Feel Bad Without I Feel Am

I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.

Mira Sorvino

Hope People Doing Kind Circumstances

Some people feel pressure; some people don't.

Jon Gruden

People Pressure Feel Some People

I was a member of the Nationalist Party for several years. I don't remember how long. Those were very dreary days, because the Nationalist Party... it's hard to describe what it was. I suppose it held on to some kind of little faith, you know? It wasn't even sure what the faith was, and it was a very despised enterprise by everybody.

Brian Friel

Faith Remember Long You Party Know

I was into comics because these were my real male role models, even though at the time, I didn't know it.

Brian Michael Bendis

Time Know Real Role Role Models

As a mother, the things that I wanted for my own four children, I want for all the children of France.

Segolene Royal

Mother Children Want My Own Own

The appetite and fight for winning a game outweighs any other thoughts.

Timothy F. Cahill

Fight Thoughts Winning Game Appetite